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Issue: Lore Olympus #4
Publication Date: January 2023
 
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Publisher: FlagRandom House
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Indicia Publisher: Del Rey
On Sale Date: 06/06/2023
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Pages: 420
ISBN: 9780593599051
UPC/EAN: 9780593599051
Price: $28.00 CAD
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Content Items: 69 (28 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Breanna Boswell; Annie LaHue
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Color: color
Dimensions: 7 in. x 9 in.
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: softcover; glossy cover; cardstock cover
Publishing Format: collected edition with some new material
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Ares; Persephone
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Lore Olympus
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Lore Olympus
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To Elizabeth Vandiver.
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Lore Olympus regularly deals with scenes of physical and mental abuse, sexual trauma, and toxic relationships.
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fantasy
Lore Olympus
Minthe; receptionists
Push
After sleeping off her drunkenness at the home of Thetis, a furious Minthe arrives at work.
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Hades; Persephone
Episode 76: Splitting
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fantasy
Lore Olympus
Hades; Minthe; Persephone
Tug tug
Minthe furiously blames Hades for her own behavior, screaming that he is the image of his tyrannical father. Hecate suspends her and has her escorted from the building, then tries to comfort the post-traumatically stressed Hades.
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Episode 77: Darkness
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Lore Olympus
Hades; Hera; Nyx (in dream); Rhea (in dream)
Nyx!?
Hades wakes from a traumatic break to find Hera at his side. She tries to comfort him, then kisses him passionately.
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Episode 78: Hera
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Lore Olympus
Hades; Hera; Hebe; Persephone; Metis (in flashback)
Hera!
In flashback, a very young Hera dresses Hades' wounds following his 13-year ordeal imprisoned in silent, solitary darkness. In the present, she tries and fails to rekindle an affair with him. She insists that he join her family for dinner, and is sardonically delighted when she's able to dragoon Persephone in as well.
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Episode 79: Sunset
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Lore Olympus
Hades; Persephone; Hera; Zeus; Hebe
I'm so sorry, Persephone.
Hades and Persephone escape the tension at Hera's table by slipping into the garden.
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Hades; Persephone
Episode 80: Siciliana
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Lore Olympus
Hades; Persephone; Zeus Apollo
Are you okay?
Persephone gives Hades a pomelia blossom. He drives her home, telling her that they were both born on Sicily. Apollo angrily confronts them.
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Episode 81: Take
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fantasy
Lore Olympus
Hades; Persephone; Apollo; Poseidon
Thump thump thump
Apollo belligerently demands that Persephone leave with him. Hades and Apollo quarrel, and Hades summons Poseidon, who removes Apollo to the Mortal Realm. Persephone falls into despair because Apollo has taken her peace, joy, and dignity, leaving her instead with fear. She steals his lyre as a way of exacting revenge.
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Episode 82: Say My Name
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Lore Olympus
Hades; Persephone; Hera; Zeus; Ares
It's Hera, I'm not available right now.
Hades breaks off any future romantic or sexual involvement with Hera. Hera rates him as an honorable suitor for Persephone. Zeus and Hera quarrel about Zeus's many affairs, and Ares joins in. Persephone worries that she might be pregnant by Apollo, and mutilates the lyre she has stolen from him.
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Episode 83: Proserpina is Late
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Lore Olympus
Persephone [Proserpina]; doctor; Hades; Zeus; Poseidon
Pregnant with a Demi God?
Persephone's pregnancy test is negative. Against Hades' objections, Zeus and Poseidon thrust themselves into his home.
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Episode 84: Pancakes
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Hades; Persephone; Zeus; Poseidon; Tori
Where do you keep your pancake mix?
Hades' brothers interrogate him on the subject of Persephone. She sets up a group study session, but everyone avoids here because of Hades having maimed the paparazzo who tried to exploit her.
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Episode 85: Between the Lines
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Lore Olympus
Hades; Persephone; Hecate; Ares; Tori
I wish everything could slow down.
Persephone seeks Hades to discuss her predicament, but has to wait while he conducts the Underworld's monthly grievance day. Ares appears, and begins harassing Persephone.
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Episode 88: A Fine Line
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Hades; Persephone; Ares
Squeak!
Ares, recognizing Persephone's anger and drawing on previous experience with her, continues to torment her because he loves conflict. Hades takes her away from the presence of Ares.
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Episode 87: It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye (Part 1)
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Lore Olympus
Hades; Persephone
... Hades?
Hades takes Persephone to a secret place where they can get away from Ares. She rebukes him for having harmed the paparazzo (supposedly on her behalf) without her knowledge, and with no reason to think that she might desire such an action.
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Episode 88: It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye (Part 2)
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Lore Olympus
Hades; Persephone; Hecate
Apology?
Persephone admits that she has strong feelings for Hades, but adds that she is respecting neither the two of them, nor his relationship with Minthe. She does not want to end their own relationship, but asks that they slow it down.
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Episode 89: It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye (Part 3)
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Lore Olympus
Hades; Persephone; paparazzo
Are you all right?
Hades and Persephone travel to the hospitalized and terrified paparazzo. Hades restores his eye.
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Episode 90: It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye (Part 4)
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Lore Olympus
Hades; Persephone; Hestia; Artemis
All finished!
Hades completes restoration of the paparazzo's eye, but Persephone is suddenly surrounded by an uncontrollable bloom of nature. She lays out guidelines for their relationship, to which he agrees while berating himself for not expressing the depth of his feelings. When he tries to resume the conversation he is stymied by a suspicious and disapproving Hestia. He salvages the situation by saying that Persephone has convinced him to make a large donation to Hestia's charities.
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Episode 91: Slideshow
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Lore Olympus
Hades; Persephone; Zeus; Ares; Aphrodite; The Goddesses of Eternal Maidenhood [Hestia; Athena; Artemis]
Inside!
A resigned Hades and an appalled Persephone suffer through Hestia's slideshow. An enraged Ares attacks a terrified Zeus over Zeus's affair with Aphrodite (Ares' girl friend).
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Episode 92: Front Lawn
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Hades; Persephone; Hestia; Zeus; Aphrodite; Ares; Hera; Poseidon
And that concludes my presentation!
Hades leaves a large check, but makes it out to Persephone, rather than making it to T.G.O.E.M. Hades and Hera are mistakenly injured in the fight between Zeus and Ares. Zeus and Poseidon haul Hades away to "blow off some steam."
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Episode 93: Semele
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Hades; Zeus; Poseidon; Semele
I'm so happy that you came.
Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus take on mortal form so that Zeus can visit his mortal girl friend.
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Hades; Poseidon; Zeus; Persephone; Artemis; Semele; Semele's father
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Hades adopts a neglected puppy, just before the three brothers have to flee Semele's infuriated father. Hades and Persephone each long for the other, but do not break the rules that they've agreed on. Artemis tells Persephone that Apollo is at their house, making breakfast.
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Episode 95: Audacity
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Lore Olympus
Persephone; Artemis; Hermes; Apollo
I have a ponytail too, see?
Once they are left alone, Apollo badgers Persephone into listening to him.
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Episode 96: Mama
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Lore Olympus
Persephone; Apollo; Demeter (in flashback); Zeus (in flashback); nymphs (in flashback)
What should I do?
Remembering a time when her mother defied Zeus, despite his lightning storm attack in revenge, Persephone steels herself to defy Apollo.
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Episode 97: We Are Nothing
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Persephone; Apollo
At first I thought what we had was a one-time fling.
Apollo insists that despite Persephone's inferior status, he likes her well enough for them to become an official couple. She rages that she despises him, but he doesn't understand.
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Episode 98: Not Your Olympian
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Persephone; Eros; Apollo; Ampelus
This is...
Persephone shows Apollo that she has vandalized his lyre, and furiously repeats that she hates and fears him, but he insists that she just needs to ask his forgiveness, and consider his offer a little longer. Eros intervenes and demands that Apollo leave. Eros begs the distraught Persephone to take the day off from school.
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Episode 99: Cupid's Arrow
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Persephone; Eros; Ares; Ampelus
I understand how you feel.
Eros takes Persephone and Ampelus to his family home. There he is shocked to learn that Persephone has some "history" with his father Ares.
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Episode 100: Man in the Woods
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Lore Olympus
Persephone; Ares; nymphs
So much to do today...
In a flashback, Persephone encounters a wounded Ares and heals him.
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Episode 101: Woman in the Woods
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Lore Olympus
Persephone; Ares; Demeter; Eros
The Next Day.
Persephone continues her story of how Ares won her sympathy, and she took advantage of the opportunity to experiment with "making out." Once she discovered that Ares had been misleading her, she turned him over to Demeter, who thrashed him with a pitchfork.
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Episode 102: I Love the Way You Make Me Feel
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Hades; Minthe; Persephone (in dream)
Okay, hopefully, this is up to your standard, Your Royal Majesty.
Hades awakens from a dream of happy marriage and family life with Persephone. He longs to build a life with her, but despairs that she eventually will no longer be able to endure his sunless realm, or the fact that he is infertile. Following his therapist's instructions he writes another letter (never to be mailed) to Persephone. This makes him realize that no matter what happens with him and Persephone, he cannot continue as he has been with Minthe.
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Hades; Persephone
I love sketches.
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About the Author

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